humiliating experience

collocation in English

meaningsofhumiliatingandexperience

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humiliating
adjective
uk
/hjuːˈmɪl.i.eɪ.tɪŋ/us
/hjuːˈmɪl.i.eɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
making you feel ashamed ...
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experience
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us
/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofhumiliatingandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is a veryhumiliatingexperiencefor this country to concede this exclusive jurisdiction to foreign courts except on the basis of reciprocity.
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I shall now quote from the young woman's account of thathumiliatingexperience.
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I do not agree that this was ahumiliatingexperience.
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When the police stop and search someone in public, it is ahumiliatingexperienceand it causes enormous resentment.
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I find this a disgusting andhumiliatingexperience.
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I think the feelings of parties who have ahumiliatingexperienceof this kind ought to be considered.
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I think that we could have a veryhumiliatingexperiencefor a large number of children.
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He had the highest recommendations from his employers, yet he had to go through this unpleasant,humiliatingexperience.
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I think that it will be regarded by most people as ahumiliatingexperience—and it will be ahumiliatingexperience.
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None the less, it has been ahumiliatingexperience.
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I have had thehumiliatingexperienceof having to tell them that there was no unit for them to join.
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Those who were on the means test had ahumiliatingexperience.
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It has been ahumiliatingexperiencefor these orchestras.
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That is a veryhumiliatingexperiencefor an independent country.
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After a very unpleasant scene and, for her, a mosthumiliatingexperience, she was finally passed to another doctor.
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It exposes the individual to ahumiliatingexperienceat the hands of the police.
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They want to avoid at all costs thehumiliatingexperienceour people had after the last war.
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I can now find it in my heart to hope that"some others"will never have a similar terrifying andhumiliatingexperience.
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Many had thehumiliatingexperienceof the means test.
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There is no morehumiliatingexperiencethan that of unemployment, but to take a generation which has known something entirely different is to rub its face in ignominy.
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